Once that critical mineral is dug up, it will leave the Copper State entirely. Despite the six-decade project still not being ...

BHP is reportedly considering reopening four long-dormant copper mines in Arizona, a key area of the US copper industry. BHP ...

After years of controversy, the mining industry is experiencing a significant revival driven by increased demand for critical ...

A quiet revolution is unfolding beneath the American West. In 2025, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released a new ...

The jewellery designer discusses the uplifting power of nature – and how she and her husband have transformed their outdoor ...

Four years after mining giant Rio Tinto swept out its veteran managers to make way for a new generation of business heads, its leadership team has come unstuck.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to step into a fight over a land transfer in Arizona that the Western Apache people say ...

(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to step into a fight over a land transfer in Arizona that the Western Apache people say will destroy a sacred site in order to build a massive copper mine.

Since being reelected, President Donald Trump has falsely claimed his tariffs will reduce the national debt. Trump is now taking this marketing pitch to sell another one of his economic policies: ...

(via SciShow) Most cultures who developed metalworking technology never let the skill go to waste. But in what's now Michigan, Native Americans started making metal tools well before anyone else did, ...

With China producing more than 85% of the world’s batteries, the U.S. is racing to mine the metals needed for national security and products like EVs. In April, 2024, the WSJ went inside two projects ...

At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming with invisible activity. Billions of microbes are hard at work ...